Quotes About Humanity

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

You can't treat people's feelings as thought they were items on a marketplace.

I do think music teaches us the thing we most want to know: that we are not alone. On the other hand–remember I have reserved the right to be inconsistent–surely the only truth is that we are, in the end, alone.

The fact is,' she stated bluntly, 'I am no more a human being than a gust of wind is. I have never had a human individual life. I have … lived in the joys, sorrows and worries of other people … it is the non-human world I belong to myself. My people are mangroves, swamps, rivers and the sea and so on–we understand each other.

Their [500 Siberian Tribes] presence predated Russians by thousands of years. Yet they are routinely referred to as 'half-thawed humanity' and 'descendants of fish'...

Truth is the aim of story. And though we must take into account the human author's subjectivity and personal slant, the best authors are those who tap universal longings and make connections to our real, lived humanity.

At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.

We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!

At one time or another, farts have coincided with every other sound, including this quote.

Some ideas need to be continually reinvented and rediscovered, particularly an idea like the omnipotence of humans. It takes a long time to give up.

Nobody is solid and perfect all of the time.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time.

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.